My final front cover!

 

This is my final front cover for my College magazine. I chose my house theme to be purple, green, white and blue to match the College website. All of the headlines plus email and date are in the same font "Teen light", i chose this font as its easy to read and also its bold enough to stand out from the photographic background. The story headlines are all in green and blue and the captions for each story are blue and purple, i did this because i wanted the text to stand out against the photograph and as the photograph looks quite busy i needed a bold vibrant font that stands out even if the text is small.

 My masthead is in  a different font so that it stands out from the other text on the page. I chose to outline the masthead in green as the purple didnt stand out very well against the photograph. The masthead is in a childlike font which makes it seem more fun and exiting just by looking at the masthead.

I was going to cut around the student on photoshop and place it onto either a purple or green background, like the College web page, but instead i decided to keep the photo as it was, simply because i wanted the new building to be featured on the front cover, also i think that the photograph covering the full page looks more proffesional and well thought out.

I edited the contrast and temperature of the photograph on photoshop to brighten the picture and make it stand out more. Editing it also made it look like a much better quality photograph than the original photo which looked quite dull and bland.